Subject: making wine.Did Jesus make a mistake. |
Bible Note: Joe It is with fear and trembling I enter a discussion with you in the light of my experience in the last thread. If you look closely at what I wrote I never said it was devoid of alcohol. If the strongest you had is what they had you probably would be effected by it also. Notice also the use of the words ‘sweet’ or ‘new’ wine. Having been through this discussion before I have pointed out the most sought after wine in all of France was the Nouveau Beaujolais meaning New Wine that comes once a year. They have a festival and the naturally fermented wine has to be drunk within a very short period of time before it spoiled and poured out. It is called sweet or new because all the natural sugar has not yet been consumed by the yeast bacteria and their waste product alcohol is still at very small percentages. The taste is very desirable and overindulgence happens easily. The fact remains without the refined sugar and modern sterilization nearly all wine of biblical except new wine would quickly spoil and have to be disposed of. Therefore most references to wine in the Bible are not to alcoholic wine but rather to reconstituted grape juice as I believe is done in the reference to Jesus turning water into wine at the wedding of Cana. However new wine did exist and I imagine it was as sought after by some as alcoholics today seek after booze. EdB |